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Members of the Class of '80 left Harvard with an unusually strong work ethic, a report issued this week by the Office of Career Services and Off-Campus Learning (OCS-OCL), shows. A record 88 per cent of the class planned either full-time graduate study or full-time employment in the year after graduation, the study stated. It also showed that men and women in the class have more uniform career goals than any other class in recent years. About 95 per cent of last year's graduates responded to the survey...
...Sunday, Vermeil and Davis will square off for Super Bowl XV in New Orleans. Each brings with him a team that mirrors his own personality. Vermeil's Eagles, this year's N.F.C. champions, are the inheritors of his pay-any-price work ethic, a squad with no well-known stars that has been forged into an efficient football machine. The Oakland Raiders, the A.F.C. champions, are a reflection of Davis and the old A.F.L., a collection of castoffs and young players who manage, with guile and grinding tenacity, to survive in spite of the odds. In a Super...
...last big crash, Granville ran an investment advice service for those who dealt in postage stamps during the 1950s. He moved up to play with the big boys in the '60s, working for E.F. Hutton until his brash unorthodoxy began to clash with the fundamentalist corporate ethic of the firm...
...these classic American gogetters. In a series of biographical sketches, he admires their energy and single-mindedness and the uncomplicated relish they took in pursuing knowledge, wealth and power. He understands the influences that gave their ambitions strength and direction: the Enlightenment and flowering of scientific curiosity; the Puritan ethic that placed religion in the service of profit; a vision of industrial progress that would free men from donkey work; a dream of dynasty in which rewards would be passed on to multiply through the efforts of one's sons...
Somewhere in the interstice between psychiatry, religion and philosophy lies the synthesis of a social ethic for the next generations. That "new" thought is but dimly seen, barely revealed even to the alchemists who litter lecture halls and speaker's platforms with the bird-droppings of Jonathan Livingston Seagull and the offal of Werner Erhard...